Public domain music can be downloaded and used in video and other projects for free. Here are the best websites for it.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beyond music, there's some surprising films, books, plays and characters that are entering the public domain, including several ...

Every January 1, pop culture quietly resets in the U.S. Old books, films, TV shows, photos, comic strips, songs, and more lose their copyright protection and enter the public domain, transforming from ...

Last year, it was Mickey Mouse. This year, Popeye the Sailor joins Mickey as a new entrant to the public domain — that is, shedding his core copyright protections on Jan. 1. He’s merely the most ...

When writing earlier this week about Adobe's sponsoring of the SQLite project, I ran into a complicated issue: is software released into the public domain also open-source software? I have an editor ...